Hi: I'm seeing the following unexpected behavior on Tomcat 5.5.7:
Place a context configuration file in CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/myapp.xml with a mistyped docBase attribute (so as to be point to a non-existent directory). Startup and then shutdown Tomcat; Tomcat seems to delete both the configuration file and the entire corresponding exploded web app directory CATALINA_HOME/webapps/myapp This seems to be new behavior with 5.5.7. Tomcat 5.5.4 exhibits a hanging problem on startup in the same circumstances, but doesn't delete everything when stopped. Tomcat 5.0.28 exhibited neither of these. Is this deletion now expected behavior or is it a bug? If it is expected, is there any way to disable it? I am seeing this on Tomcat 5.5.7 with default configuration over JDK 1.5.0_01 on Win XP --a.
